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Vertical profiles of latent heating in trmm: validation and assimilation in the geos data assimilation system. [year 2001 project report]
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Zhang, Ming-Hua |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Description | I have derived the vertical profiles of apparent heating Q and Q2 by using 3-hourly balloon sounding data from the ARM SGP sounding array for three IOPs in 2000. These IOPs cover the periods from 3/1 to 3/22, from 9/25 to 10/8, and from 11/27 to 12/22. These heating profiles will be collocated with the TRMM heating profiles for validation studies once the TRMM profiles become available to the investigators. I have also produced the objective analyses of Q1, Q2 and forcing fields for the international GCSS Case 3 Intercomparison project. The GSFC CRM participated in study, based on which TRMM heating profiles are derived. I have also studied to assimilate the vertical heating profile by constraining the cloud-base mass flux in the cumulus convection scheme using the CCM3. I first derive the vertical heating profile for each convective plume of unit cloud-base mass flux. The observed heating profile form ARM is then de-convoluted to derive the cloud base mass fluxes of all individual plumes. These fluxes are compared with those derived from the quasi-equilibrium hypothesis. They are shown to improve many other aspects of the model behavior. |
| File Size | 115861 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20010097612 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1wd8t64v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2001-01-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Trmm Satellite Latent Heat Satellite Observation Geosat Satellites Balloon Sounding Plumes Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |